He’s got to get off the golf course, and he’s got to get engaged.

— Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), in an interview on Bloomberg TV, saying that if there is going to be any resolution to raise the nation’s debt limit and stave off a default, President Obama “will have to show some leadership.”

$20 million

Amount Karl Rove’s Crossroads’ GPS policy arm is going to spend over the next two months on a television campaign targeting Obama’s record on the economy, according to a copy of the ad shared with National Journal.

48% say yes, 47% no

Americans are about evenly divided on whether President Obama deserves re-election, according to a new Associated Press-GfK poll.

Our three most important issues: Medicare, Medicare and Medicare.

— House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), saying “her party will be playing offense … zeroing in on the 60 GOP members who represent districts that Obama carried in 2008,” the Washington Post reports.

I don’t have a teleprompter. I don’t know if you’ve noticed that up here. President Bachmann may be retiring that thing.

— Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN), quoted by Radio Iowa.

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And, yes, Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin is now the most unpopular Republican holding elected office, according to a Bloomberg poll. Only Newt Gingrich and Sarah Palin are less popular.
At about the 3:00 mark, O’Donnell runs a clip from May 31 of a right-wing [...]

As was noted here last week, repealing marriage equality in 2008 has already cost California businesses and local governments $750 million and could represent a loss of $2.5 billion over the next decade.
The sentiments in the photo above were reflected in the lead editorial on the Los Angeles Times op-ed page today:

If all it took to be president was chutzpah and cojones, Newt Gingrich would be president for life.
With his Mediterranean cruise and its fallout — the abrupt departure of his senior campaign staff — behind him, Gingrich finally showed up in Iowa over the weekend to campaign for the GOP presidential nomination.
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1,014

Number of feet above sea level the Fort Calhoun, Neb. nuclear plant was built to withstand from floods in the Missouri River. The river is currently at 1,006.3 feet but is not expected to exceed 1,008. Should it do so, emergency managers plan to fight the flood with sandbags.

Just in time for vacation planning!